WEBVTT 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:20.777 I think you've maybe forgotten, buddy, 00:00:20.801 --> 00:00:22.617 I cut you in on the Timberlake story. 00:00:22.641 --> 00:00:24.817 And you made a fortune out of that mother, so 00:00:24.841 --> 00:00:28.321 just goddamn pick up, David. Cos I know you're in there with her! 00:00:32.361 --> 00:00:34.257 What, you saw her? 00:00:34.281 --> 00:00:36.497 She just ran out of the back with some others. 00:00:36.521 --> 00:00:39.361 What's out the back? 00:00:42.041 --> 00:00:43.937 There's more than one car. 00:00:43.961 --> 00:00:45.617 Oh, it's smart... 00:00:45.641 --> 00:00:47.121 They're sending out decoys. 00:00:53.362 --> 00:00:55.522 She's in the back of the Beamer! TYRES SCREECH. 00:00:59.282 --> 00:01:00.482 Shit! 00:01:01.522 --> 00:01:03.042 Did it work? I don't know. 00:01:07.322 --> 00:01:10.218 How did they know where to find me? Journalists, it's what we do. 00:01:10.242 --> 00:01:12.282 I'll try San Miguelito. We'll lose them, for sure. 00:01:24.243 --> 00:01:27.083 Oh, Jesus, Stef! You want me to lose them or not? 00:01:48.883 --> 00:01:51.059 How are we doing? I can't see anyone. 00:01:51.083 --> 00:01:52.739 You think we've lost them now? 00:01:52.763 --> 00:01:54.523 I think we actually might have. 00:02:01.044 --> 00:02:03.044 Pete? We're right behind you. 00:02:04.204 --> 00:02:06.420 No, you're not. Look out the back. 00:02:06.444 --> 00:02:07.900 What do you want? Just one photo. 00:02:07.924 --> 00:02:10.500 You can have the story, I just want a snap. 00:02:10.524 --> 00:02:12.564 In the nicest possible way, Pete, piss off. 00:02:13.764 --> 00:02:16.084 Is he behind us? No, he's bluffing. 00:02:19.884 --> 00:02:21.644 OK, he's not bluffing. Faster, Stef! On it. 00:02:24.164 --> 00:02:27.100 'I expect you're wondering how I ended up here. 00:02:27.124 --> 00:02:28.404 'So am I. 00:02:29.725 --> 00:02:32.205 'All I ever wanted was a simple life.' 00:02:59.605 --> 00:03:01.741 'December 2000. 00:03:01.765 --> 00:03:04.046 'The third worst Christmas of my life. 00:03:05.606 --> 00:03:08.702 'This was a whole year before it properly began. 00:03:08.726 --> 00:03:10.542 'But we'd already lost grip.' 00:03:10.566 --> 00:03:11.926 Anne! 00:03:12.966 --> 00:03:14.566 Come on, love! 00:03:15.526 --> 00:03:17.766 Shake a bloody leg! 00:03:34.566 --> 00:03:36.447 Do you want to grab that, love? 00:03:38.687 --> 00:03:40.567 Strong as an ox, that one. 00:04:13.968 --> 00:04:17.208 Did you put the kettle on? I was doing this, like you said. 00:04:18.208 --> 00:04:20.664 No problemo, I'll do it. 00:04:20.688 --> 00:04:23.224 How are we going to furnish it all, John? 00:04:23.248 --> 00:04:24.904 Or decorate it? 00:04:24.928 --> 00:04:27.784 Because every single room needs doing. 00:04:27.808 --> 00:04:29.224 Of 13. 00:04:29.248 --> 00:04:32.624 And how are we gonna heat it? 00:04:32.648 --> 00:04:34.504 Not to mention next door, which, by the way, 00:04:34.528 --> 00:04:36.984 you can hear on every floor through those bloody doors. 00:04:37.008 --> 00:04:39.504 Drunks and drug addicts and people having *. 00:04:39.528 --> 00:04:41.585 I mean, just how are we gonna pay for any of it? 00:04:41.609 --> 00:04:43.345 With next door, love. 00:04:43.369 --> 00:04:46.025 11 bedsits, which I will be doing up. 00:04:46.049 --> 00:04:48.225 As I've explained 00:04:48.249 --> 00:04:49.849 a thousand times. 00:04:50.929 --> 00:04:53.169 And how long before this isn't enough? 00:04:59.969 --> 00:05:02.745 I'll get all those bricked up, soundproofed. 00:05:02.769 --> 00:05:04.065 We'll never need them anyway. 00:05:04.089 --> 00:05:07.609 And this time, this is it. I promise. 00:05:08.170 --> 00:05:10.746 Hang on, move in a bit, I can't see. 00:05:10.770 --> 00:05:14.066 'John was a man who'd buy a Range Rover he couldn't afford...' 00:05:14.090 --> 00:05:15.466 Now, say, "Cheese!" 00:05:15.490 --> 00:05:18.386 '..And then spend 3,000 on a personalised number plate.' 00:05:18.410 --> 00:05:19.690 Cheese! 00:05:21.410 --> 00:05:23.970 'And all before we'd got the gas connected.' 00:05:35.330 --> 00:05:37.026 Tea? 00:05:37.050 --> 00:05:38.370 Oh, thanks. 00:05:39.330 --> 00:05:41.307 There you go. Thank you. 00:05:41.331 --> 00:05:44.107 Happy New Year! Oh, happy New Year! Happy New Year! 00:05:44.131 --> 00:05:47.387 'John was a man who wouldn't just buy number three, 00:05:47.411 --> 00:05:49.547 'if he could kid the bank to lend him enough money 00:05:49.571 --> 00:05:51.827 'to buy number four as well. 00:05:51.851 --> 00:05:55.651 'On top of the 12 rental properties we already owned. 00:05:57.371 --> 00:06:00.467 'John was a man who always needed more...' 00:06:00.491 --> 00:06:01.947 John! 00:06:01.971 --> 00:06:03.347 '..Of everything. 00:06:03.371 --> 00:06:06.187 'To show just how far he'd travel led 00:06:06.211 --> 00:06:09.707 'from the stink and the soot of the colliery town he'd come from.' 00:06:13.452 --> 00:06:15.132 'Except now 00:06:16.572 --> 00:06:19.212 'it was all finally falling apart.' 00:06:37.812 --> 00:06:39.332 John, stop. 00:06:45.252 --> 00:06:48.949 American Express called again this afternoon. 00:06:48.973 --> 00:06:52.069 They've said they're going to have to send the bailiffs in. 00:06:52.093 --> 00:06:54.389 And I just totted up the others. 00:06:54.413 --> 00:06:57.829 You owe 64,000 on 13 different cards. 00:06:57.853 --> 00:06:59.333 Never mind the mortgage. 00:07:00.573 --> 00:07:02.293 Because the markets have collapsed. 00:07:04.333 --> 00:07:07.133 I mean, I'm trying my best here. I really am. 00:07:08.613 --> 00:07:11.869 But there are never enough hours in the day to do it all. 00:07:11.893 --> 00:07:15.149 The shifts at the prison, having to find new tenants all the time, 00:07:15.173 --> 00:07:17.349 the endless repairs. 00:07:17.373 --> 00:07:19.390 And I know you're doing your best, love. 00:07:19.414 --> 00:07:20.830 I do. 00:07:20.854 --> 00:07:22.910 And I know it isn't your fault. 00:07:22.934 --> 00:07:25.150 But we do still have to face up to reality now, 00:07:25.174 --> 00:07:26.790 because I can't go on like this. 00:07:26.814 --> 00:07:28.910 No, I know. 00:07:28.934 --> 00:07:30.470 Do you? 00:07:30.494 --> 00:07:31.814 Of course. 00:07:33.094 --> 00:07:34.990 I know you think I don't take it seriously. 00:07:35.014 --> 00:07:36.230 But I do. 00:07:36.254 --> 00:07:39.110 In fact, I've been thinking of pretty much nothing else 00:07:39.134 --> 00:07:40.734 for the last six months. 00:07:41.814 --> 00:07:44.174 And as far as I can see, we don't have a lot of choice. 00:07:45.574 --> 00:07:50.094 As far as I can see, there is only one sensible solution. 00:07:54.215 --> 00:07:57.815 And I know how hard that'll be. 00:07:59.695 --> 00:08:01.471 I know how important it was for you 00:08:01.495 --> 00:08:03.591 to feel like you'd bettered yourself. 00:08:03.615 --> 00:08:05.751 But I promise you 00:08:05.775 --> 00:08:10.535 filing for bankruptcy won't make me love you one single jot less. 00:08:11.655 --> 00:08:13.831 Bankruptcy? Yes. 00:08:13.855 --> 00:08:15.551 What are you talking about? 00:08:15.575 --> 00:08:18.431 You said there was only one sensible solution. 00:08:18.455 --> 00:08:19.991 And there is. 00:08:20.015 --> 00:08:21.455 But it's not bankruptcy. 00:08:22.935 --> 00:08:25.136 Well, what on Earth is it, then? 00:08:27.976 --> 00:08:30.336 You're going to love this. 00:08:32.916 --> 00:08:34.932 Well, I don't even know where to start. 00:08:34.956 --> 00:08:37.292 I mean, apart from it being completely illegal, 00:08:37.316 --> 00:08:39.092 apart from it being totally immoral, 00:08:39.116 --> 00:08:41.892 what in God's name do you think it would do to our family? 00:08:41.916 --> 00:08:43.772 To our boys? 00:08:43.796 --> 00:08:46.412 To your dad, my parents, to any of them, 00:08:46.436 --> 00:08:48.196 to actually think you were dead? 00:08:49.916 --> 00:08:53.053 I think they'd be upset for a few weeks and then they'd get over it. 00:08:53.077 --> 00:08:54.853 You've lost your mind, John. 00:08:54.877 --> 00:08:56.877 You are literally mad and... Enough! 00:08:59.037 --> 00:09:01.557 I am most certainly not mad, Anne. 00:09:02.637 --> 00:09:06.053 What I am is a man who thinks outside the box. 00:09:06.077 --> 00:09:07.573 Oh, are you? 00:09:07.597 --> 00:09:11.053 And no of fence, but that takes a certain sort of brain. 00:09:11.077 --> 00:09:14.733 So... I need you to trust me here. 00:09:14.757 --> 00:09:17.013 Because this 00:09:17.037 --> 00:09:19.413 is a very good idea. 00:09:19.437 --> 00:09:20.693 Is it? 00:09:20.717 --> 00:09:23.453 OK, so talk me through it, then, please, in detail, 00:09:23.477 --> 00:09:25.437 this "very good idea". 00:09:27.358 --> 00:09:32.294 I have a canoe downstairs in the cellar. 00:09:32.318 --> 00:09:35.494 And I have that canoe because, as you know, 00:09:35.518 --> 00:09:37.254 I used to like canoeing. 00:09:37.278 --> 00:09:40.654 Now, it would be fair to say it has been some time since I last used it. 00:09:40.678 --> 00:09:43.774 So, for the purposes of phase one of my plan, 00:09:43.798 --> 00:09:47.574 we will need to remind people of my historic love of canoeing, 00:09:47.598 --> 00:09:51.134 but also of my intention, once again, to take it up. 00:09:51.158 --> 00:09:52.534 And this will thus require, 00:09:52.558 --> 00:09:54.774 at appropriate moments in the coming weeks and months, 00:09:54.798 --> 00:09:57.894 that you and I drop it into conversation with people. 00:09:57.918 --> 00:09:59.815 Saying something along the lines of, 00:09:59.839 --> 00:10:02.079 "John's thinking of starting up canoeing again." 00:10:03.719 --> 00:10:04.999 Right. 00:10:06.319 --> 00:10:09.855 Meanwhile, in tandem, I will start to assemble 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:12.799 what will essentially be a survival kit. 00:10:14.119 --> 00:10:15.895 An emergency kit 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:18.735 comprising everything I'd need to survive in the wild 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:20.855 for an unspecified period of time. 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:23.655 A tent, obviously. A sleeping bag. 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:26.519 A stove. Clothes. A torch. 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:30.399 A penknife. 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:34.256 Maybe some Kendal Mint Cake, whatever. 00:10:34.280 --> 00:10:38.096 These examples are illustrative, rather than exhaustive, 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:40.080 but I'm sure you get my drift. 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:43.936 Now, once I have assembled my kit, 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:46.576 I will then start to monitor local weather reports, 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:49.376 forecasts, tides, sea conditions etc, etc. 00:10:49.400 --> 00:10:51.536 And then, on a pre-arranged day, 00:10:51.560 --> 00:10:53.976 when we are sure that the weather is fine, 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.656 phase one of the plan will begin. 00:10:56.680 --> 00:10:58.496 So 00:10:58.520 --> 00:11:01.656 You will go to work as if everything were completely normal. 00:11:01.680 --> 00:11:04.657 And I will covertly survey the street, 00:11:04.681 --> 00:11:07.217 and then, at an appropriate moment, 00:11:07.241 --> 00:11:09.937 that is, when a neighbour is approaching, 00:11:09.961 --> 00:11:13.057 I will walk out of the front door with the canoe under my arm, 00:11:13.081 --> 00:11:14.777 ensuring I am seen. 00:11:14.801 --> 00:11:16.777 I will then carry the canoe down to the beach, 00:11:16.801 --> 00:11:19.897 making sure a few people see me there as well. 00:11:19.921 --> 00:11:22.337 I will then put the canoe in the water, 00:11:22.361 --> 00:11:25.217 I will get in it, and I will paddle out to sea. 00:11:25.241 --> 00:11:28.857 I will then bank north and paddle along the coast for a few miles. 00:11:28.881 --> 00:11:32.817 And then, at an appropriate point, now out of sight of any walkers, 00:11:32.841 --> 00:11:35.257 I will then paddle back in. 00:11:35.281 --> 00:11:37.218 And once ashore, I will unpack my kit, 00:11:37.242 --> 00:11:39.018 I will break the paddle, throw it out to sea. 00:11:39.042 --> 00:11:40.938 I will push the canoe out as well. 00:11:40.962 --> 00:11:43.218 I will then make my way across country 00:11:43.242 --> 00:11:46.778 and pick a wild and remote spot where I shall then hide. 00:11:46.802 --> 00:11:48.882 You'll hide? I will then hide. 00:11:50.082 --> 00:11:52.218 In your tent? In my tent. 00:11:52.242 --> 00:11:53.698 So 00:11:53.722 --> 00:11:57.418 That very same evening, you will return from work, 00:11:57.442 --> 00:11:59.858 realise I am not there and spot that the canoe, 00:11:59.882 --> 00:12:02.578 which was in the hallway, has now gone. 00:12:02.602 --> 00:12:05.018 You'll ring my work. You'll ring a few friends maybe. 00:12:05.042 --> 00:12:07.978 Well, we don't have any fr... Then, finally, desperately worried, 00:12:08.002 --> 00:12:10.779 you will ring the police and raise the alarm. 00:12:10.803 --> 00:12:13.499 They will then send a boat out for me. 00:12:13.523 --> 00:12:15.899 They? The police, or the lifeboat people, 00:12:15.923 --> 00:12:18.379 or whoever, they will send a boat out to look for me. 00:12:18.403 --> 00:12:19.939 They obviously won't find me. 00:12:19.963 --> 00:12:21.979 And so, eventually, after a few hours, 00:12:22.003 --> 00:12:24.259 it'll be assumed I've had a heart attack or something, 00:12:24.283 --> 00:12:25.419 or the weather turned. 00:12:25.443 --> 00:12:27.139 I thought you said the weather was good. 00:12:27.163 --> 00:12:29.339 Anne, will you just...? 00:12:29.363 --> 00:12:32.299 And so, you, meanwhile, have been sitting tight, 00:12:32.323 --> 00:12:35.219 as various formalities and procedures and whatnot 00:12:35.243 --> 00:12:37.139 have been worked through. Whatnot? 00:12:37.163 --> 00:12:39.819 Which will all conclude, a week or so later, 00:12:39.843 --> 00:12:42.420 with me, tragically, being declared dead. 00:12:42.444 --> 00:12:46.260 At which point, you will be able to claim the life insurance. 00:12:46.284 --> 00:12:49.940 And at which point also, my dear wife, 00:12:49.964 --> 00:12:52.700 we will, ironically 00:12:52.724 --> 00:12:54.524 be home and dry. 00:12:56.284 --> 00:12:58.524 What could be simpler? 00:13:00.364 --> 00:13:01.924 And then? 00:13:03.164 --> 00:13:04.540 What do you mean, "And then"? 00:13:04.564 --> 00:13:07.540 Well, what happens then to us, cos you'll be dead, won't you? 00:13:07.564 --> 00:13:09.764 So, how are we meant to be together? 00:13:11.044 --> 00:13:13.220 I mean, maybe you have plastic surgery 00:13:13.244 --> 00:13:15.701 and I marry this new bloke I've met who looks a bit like you. 00:13:15.725 --> 00:13:17.901 That's actually not a bad... 00:13:17.925 --> 00:13:20.381 Or maybe the plan's for me to give you all the insurance money 00:13:20.405 --> 00:13:22.181 and for you to run off with one of your tarts. 00:13:22.205 --> 00:13:23.781 Was that it? That's not the plan at all. 00:13:23.805 --> 00:13:26.261 No, John, I simply will not be a part of it. 00:13:26.285 --> 00:13:29.421 I am not telling such an utterly dreadful lie to the police, 00:13:29.445 --> 00:13:31.581 to our family, but, most importantly, 00:13:31.605 --> 00:13:33.621 to our two beautiful sons. 00:13:33.645 --> 00:13:38.061 I could not think of doing something so completely appalling, 00:13:38.085 --> 00:13:40.181 and I am so upset that you could. 00:13:40.205 --> 00:13:42.421 So it's not happening, ever, OK? 00:13:42.445 --> 00:13:44.741 Well, I suppose I'll have to do it for real, then. 00:13:44.765 --> 00:13:46.021 Do what? 00:13:46.045 --> 00:13:48.142 Top myself. 00:13:48.166 --> 00:13:50.806 What? I'm sorry, love. 00:13:52.006 --> 00:13:54.766 But I'd genuinely prefer to end it all 00:13:56.126 --> 00:13:57.886 than face the shame 00:13:58.926 --> 00:14:00.286 of bankruptcy. 00:14:04.446 --> 00:14:06.222 I just couldn't bear it. 00:14:06.246 --> 00:14:09.022 No, love, tell me you would never do it. 00:14:09.046 --> 00:14:10.366 No, I would. 00:14:11.446 --> 00:14:14.126 To lose everything I've worked for my whole life 00:14:16.326 --> 00:14:17.926 I would, my darling. 00:14:22.527 --> 00:14:24.783 'I suspected it was a lie. 00:14:24.807 --> 00:14:28.023 'But I couldn't be sure. 00:14:28.047 --> 00:14:30.487 'And he knew that.' 00:14:47.767 --> 00:14:49.383 'Every day, for weeks, 00:14:49.407 --> 00:14:53.304 'I continued to try to dissuade him, to resist him. 00:14:53.328 --> 00:14:55.344 'But he was determined.' 00:14:55.368 --> 00:14:57.008 I can just buy a new one. 00:15:00.288 --> 00:15:02.584 I've come about your unpaid bills, Mr Darwin! 00:15:02.608 --> 00:15:06.064 'In the end, I genuinely don't think he could see another way out.' 00:15:06.088 --> 00:15:07.808 I'm not going anywhere until you do! 00:15:19.448 --> 00:15:21.288 It's tomorrow, then. 00:15:22.768 --> 00:15:24.088 What? 00:15:25.328 --> 00:15:27.505 I'm doing it tomorrow. No, John. 00:15:27.529 --> 00:15:29.465 The weather's perfect, the tides are right. 00:15:29.489 --> 00:15:31.705 Please, please, think of the boys. 00:15:31.729 --> 00:15:35.705 For Christ's sakes, Anne, I'm doing it tomorrow. 00:15:35.729 --> 00:15:37.225 I'm doing it tomorrow. 00:15:37.249 --> 00:15:39.529 And I am asking you to support me, your husband. 00:15:43.009 --> 00:15:44.289 Tomorrow. 00:15:45.409 --> 00:15:47.225 John, please... 00:15:47.249 --> 00:15:50.105 No-one is queueing up for a woman like you, Anne. 00:15:50.129 --> 00:15:53.609 They weren't when I married you, and they certainly wouldn't be now! 00:16:12.570 --> 00:16:14.250 Annie... 00:16:15.290 --> 00:16:18.266 I'll see you at the meeting point tonight. 00:16:18.290 --> 00:16:19.970 Do not be late. 00:17:02.331 --> 00:17:04.027 Nice weather for it! 00:17:04.051 --> 00:17:05.372 Sorry? 00:17:07.772 --> 00:17:10.012 I said, nice weather for it! 00:17:12.252 --> 00:17:13.892 For a spot of canoeing. 00:17:15.052 --> 00:17:18.052 Oh, right, yeah, I guess. See you later, then. 00:17:22.292 --> 00:17:23.668 Sorry! 00:17:23.692 --> 00:17:24.932 Thank you. 00:17:57.213 --> 00:17:58.893 Buggeration! 00:19:44.376 --> 00:19:46.472 What bloody time do you call this? 00:19:46.496 --> 00:19:49.073 It's nearly half past! 00:19:49.097 --> 00:19:50.873 I'm dying of sodding hypothermia here! 00:20:37.218 --> 00:20:39.994 It'll all be over in a couple of weeks. 00:20:40.018 --> 00:20:41.618 I promise you, love. 00:20:43.418 --> 00:20:45.994 It'll be tricky for a few days. 00:20:46.018 --> 00:20:48.794 And then people will move on, 00:20:48.818 --> 00:20:51.218 and we'll be able to get back on track. 00:20:54.739 --> 00:20:56.299 Trust me. 00:20:59.579 --> 00:21:01.059 I love you. 00:21:10.459 --> 00:21:12.299 Don't let me down. 00:21:13.419 --> 00:21:15.555 The train at platform four 00:21:15.579 --> 00:21:19.259 is the delayed 20:16 TransPennine service to Carlisle... 00:21:36.380 --> 00:21:39.716 'I read this story in the Echo once. 00:21:39.740 --> 00:21:44.116 'About a hot-air balloon that had escaped its mooring 00:21:44.140 --> 00:21:46.820 'with a little boy in the basket. 00:21:48.620 --> 00:21:53.557 'A lady had grabbed hold of a rope and tried to pull it back down, 00:21:53.581 --> 00:21:56.117 'but she wasn't strong enough. 00:21:56.141 --> 00:21:59.637 'And the balloon, with her now hanging on, 00:21:59.661 --> 00:22:01.701 'had continued to rise. 00:22:03.421 --> 00:22:06.837 'And as she considered whether she should let go 00:22:06.861 --> 00:22:09.197 'and maybe break a leg, 00:22:09.221 --> 00:22:12.037 'or keep holding on and hope her weight 00:22:12.061 --> 00:22:15.477 'would eventually bring the balloon back down, 00:22:15.501 --> 00:22:20.901 'in that moment, it had risen a further 30 feet. 00:22:22.461 --> 00:22:24.797 'At that point, 00:22:24.821 --> 00:22:29.142 'her only choice was to hold on and pray.' 00:22:56.742 --> 00:22:59.903 'Emergency 999. What service do you require?' 00:23:02.943 --> 00:23:07.023 Police, please. I think my husband might be missing. 00:23:18.963 --> 00:23:21.083 And what time was he meant to have been at work? 00:23:22.883 --> 00:23:25.003 His shift was meant to start at seven. 00:23:26.203 --> 00:23:28.500 OK. Do you want to go and check on the neighbours, 00:23:28.524 --> 00:23:30.484 see if anyone saw him leave with a canoe? 00:23:32.404 --> 00:23:35.740 Anne, do you have a photo of John we could use, 00:23:35.764 --> 00:23:38.220 just in case we...? No. 00:23:38.244 --> 00:23:39.340 I'm sorry? 00:23:39.364 --> 00:23:42.140 He had a thing about having his photo taken. 00:23:42.164 --> 00:23:45.004 I don't have any, I'm afraid. None at all. 00:23:47.204 --> 00:23:51.060 Are there any issues going on that we need to know about? 00:23:51.084 --> 00:23:53.580 Any rows, any money issues? 00:23:53.604 --> 00:23:55.780 You know, anything at all that might have caused him 00:23:55.804 --> 00:23:58.500 to want to get away for a few days? 00:23:58.524 --> 00:24:00.165 No, none at all. 00:24:08.365 --> 00:24:11.741 So, he's 51 and fairly fit, you say. 00:24:11.765 --> 00:24:13.621 But he hasn't used the canoe for a few years... 00:24:13.645 --> 00:24:16.501 I've got a neighbour who saw him walk down to the beach with it. 00:24:16.525 --> 00:24:19.581 And a dog-walker who saw him going into the water with it. 00:24:19.605 --> 00:24:21.381 Both about six hours ago. OK. 00:24:21.405 --> 00:24:24.541 Erm, I think we're gonna have to call this one in, Anne, 00:24:24.565 --> 00:24:27.461 get some people out looking for him, OK, so 00:24:27.485 --> 00:24:29.981 is there anyone that can be with you right now? 00:24:30.005 --> 00:24:31.045 My brother. 00:24:33.726 --> 00:24:36.942 'I had no idea, none whatsoever, 00:24:36.966 --> 00:24:40.262 'how big it would get and how fast.' 00:24:40.286 --> 00:24:42.742 I'm standing now outside the Seaton Carew residence 00:24:42.766 --> 00:24:46.382 of the lone canoeist, named by police as John Ronald Darwin, 00:24:46.406 --> 00:24:48.702 who paddled out to sea earlier today, 00:24:48.726 --> 00:24:50.326 but has not been seen since. 00:24:54.566 --> 00:24:55.606 Anne? 00:24:57.286 --> 00:25:00.182 Oh, Michael, what am I gonna do? It's OK, pet. 00:25:00.206 --> 00:25:02.182 It's going to be OK. 00:25:02.206 --> 00:25:04.302 I told him not to. 00:25:04.326 --> 00:25:06.863 I said, "Don't do it." I'm sure you did. 00:25:06.887 --> 00:25:08.983 Have you called the boys yet? 00:25:09.007 --> 00:25:10.823 I can't... I can't tell them. 00:25:10.847 --> 00:25:13.263 Please, don't make me tell them. Please, I can't. I can't. 00:25:13.287 --> 00:25:15.903 It's OK, you don't have to tell them. 00:25:15.927 --> 00:25:17.663 Because they're going to find him. 00:25:17.687 --> 00:25:19.743 Very soon, I swear. 00:25:19.767 --> 00:25:24.703 And if I know your John, he'll be absolutely bloody fine. 00:25:24.727 --> 00:25:26.303 Full English, please. 00:25:26.327 --> 00:25:28.007 Okey-do key. 00:25:29.207 --> 00:25:31.463 And breakfast is between 7:00 and 9:00. 00:25:31.487 --> 00:25:33.223 Lovely. 00:25:33.247 --> 00:25:34.583 So 00:25:34.607 --> 00:25:37.623 There's your key, Mr Allen. 00:25:37.647 --> 00:25:40.464 Number five, which is second floor, third one down on the left. 00:25:40.488 --> 00:25:41.848 Thank you. 00:25:43.288 --> 00:25:45.424 'And so what sort of difficulties 00:25:45.448 --> 00:25:47.744 'might a canoeist run into in these sorts of conditions? 00:25:47.768 --> 00:25:50.544 'Multiple. I mean, he might have lost his paddle. 00:25:50.568 --> 00:25:52.184 'He could have had an issue...' 00:25:52.208 --> 00:25:54.064 Anyway... 00:25:54.088 --> 00:25:55.568 I think I'll turn in. 00:25:56.928 --> 00:25:58.568 Night, love. Good night. 00:25:59.648 --> 00:26:02.544 'We've got three boats, two choppers and one plane, 00:26:02.568 --> 00:26:04.848 'so that's about 60 men and women, all told.' 00:26:20.209 --> 00:26:22.089 You have to eat something, love. 00:26:26.689 --> 00:26:28.345 And they'll find him. 00:26:28.369 --> 00:26:30.185 I know they will. 00:26:30.209 --> 00:26:34.249 60 men and women, Anne, working on it day and night. 00:26:35.889 --> 00:26:37.265 So... 00:26:37.289 --> 00:26:39.265 Mam and Dad are driving over. 00:26:39.289 --> 00:26:42.345 And I think it probably is time now that we let the boys know. 00:26:42.369 --> 00:26:46.026 Anthony's on holiday in Niagara. 00:26:46.050 --> 00:26:48.450 He's gone there to propose to Louise. 00:26:50.130 --> 00:26:52.130 Maybe I'll try Mark first. 00:26:54.650 --> 00:26:56.026 Anne...? 00:26:57.410 --> 00:26:59.170 Are you all right? SHE GROANS. 00:27:07.970 --> 00:27:10.426 Mark Darwin. 'Oh, hi, Mark. 00:27:10.450 --> 00:27:13.226 'I've got a man on the line who says he's your Uncle Michael.' 00:27:13.250 --> 00:27:15.210 Er, put him through. 00:27:26.091 --> 00:27:28.187 'Hopes are fading in the search 00:27:28.211 --> 00:27:31.147 'for missing Seaton Carew resident John Darwin. 00:27:31.171 --> 00:27:34.067 'Mr Darwin, 51, who went missing over 24 hours ago, 00:27:34.091 --> 00:27:37.067 'was last seen paddling out to sea in his canoe. 00:27:37.091 --> 00:27:39.867 'Despite being an experienced kayaker 00:27:39.891 --> 00:27:42.187 'and favourable weather conditions yesterday, 00:27:42.211 --> 00:27:44.787 'Darwin has failed to return to shore. 00:27:44.811 --> 00:27:47.547 'The Coastguard are still searching, but with every passing hour, 00:27:47.571 --> 00:27:51.028 'the chances of fining Mr Darwin alive are significantly reduced.' 00:27:53.852 --> 00:27:55.748 No, no, no. 00:27:55.772 --> 00:27:59.028 One second, Mr Darwin! Can you just give us...? 00:28:19.612 --> 00:28:21.948 They're going to find him, Mam, I promise you. 00:28:21.972 --> 00:28:23.469 And he... 00:28:23.493 --> 00:28:25.309 He's going to be fine. 00:28:25.333 --> 00:28:27.013 I promise. 00:28:28.373 --> 00:28:32.749 No, sweetheart, I think we've lost him, I really do. 00:28:32.773 --> 00:28:34.333 I think he's gone. 00:28:35.693 --> 00:28:39.229 'I did so many dreadful things over the next few years. 00:28:39.253 --> 00:28:41.149 'But this... 00:28:41.173 --> 00:28:45.253 'This moment will remain with me till the day I die.' 00:29:23.214 --> 00:29:26.430 'Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking...' 00:29:26.454 --> 00:29:29.631 He was always having these hair-brained, 00:29:29.655 --> 00:29:31.911 get-rich-quick schemes. 00:29:31.935 --> 00:29:34.511 And there was this time that he decided 00:29:34.535 --> 00:29:36.975 the future was in garden gnomes. 00:29:38.495 --> 00:29:41.095 And he bought a load of them cheap somewhere. 00:29:42.415 --> 00:29:47.951 And me and Mark and him spent weeks in the shed painting them. 00:29:47.975 --> 00:29:50.215 Selling them at boot fairs. 00:29:54.775 --> 00:29:56.695 I think for a loss in the end. 00:30:00.976 --> 00:30:02.576 But we loved it. 00:30:08.416 --> 00:30:12.952 'Over the next few days, the police came and went. 00:30:12.976 --> 00:30:16.672 'Somehow, they managed to find absolutely nothing 00:30:16.696 --> 00:30:19.232 'in John's effects and documents 00:30:19.256 --> 00:30:23.432 'that suggested anything other than what I'd told them. 00:30:23.456 --> 00:30:26.112 'And then, four days after he'd gone missing...' 00:30:26.136 --> 00:30:28.936 THUNDER CRACKS '..a new officer came over.' 00:30:30.696 --> 00:30:32.832 I'm afraid they are now 00:30:32.856 --> 00:30:35.337 calling the search off, Anne. 00:30:36.577 --> 00:30:41.137 And I think we probably do all need to prepare for the worst. 00:30:52.297 --> 00:30:54.073 Obviously, not now, 00:30:54.097 --> 00:30:56.833 but at some point, I will need you to make a statement. 00:31:04.257 --> 00:31:05.938 Oh, sorry, that's me. 00:31:14.538 --> 00:31:15.834 Hello? 00:31:15.858 --> 00:31:17.674 Hiya, love. 00:31:17.698 --> 00:31:19.138 It's me. 00:31:20.698 --> 00:31:22.234 Are you OK, Mam? 00:31:22.258 --> 00:31:23.498 'Anne?' 00:31:26.338 --> 00:31:28.498 Anne, can you hear me? 00:31:31.058 --> 00:31:32.538 Mum...? Anne? 00:31:33.978 --> 00:31:37.138 Sorry, it's a friend from the choir just checking in. 00:31:39.979 --> 00:31:41.539 One second, Jean. 00:31:51.379 --> 00:31:52.835 Are you insane? 00:31:52.859 --> 00:31:55.715 'I've got the police here, John, not to mention our family, ' 00:31:55.739 --> 00:31:56.795 my brother, the boys. 00:31:56.819 --> 00:31:58.995 Well, how was I to know? 'Well, clearly.' 00:31:59.019 --> 00:32:00.715 I mean, how you could ever have thought 00:32:00.739 --> 00:32:02.395 this would all be over in a few days... 00:32:02.419 --> 00:32:05.035 It will be. No, John, it won't be. 00:32:05.059 --> 00:32:07.715 It's huge, the whole thing is snowballing. 00:32:07.739 --> 00:32:09.875 And I cannot believe I let you convince me. 00:32:09.899 --> 00:32:12.556 'Well, it's no bloody picnic here, either, let me tell you! 00:32:12.580 --> 00:32:14.316 My mattress keeps deflating. 00:32:14.340 --> 00:32:16.156 I've had no hot food for three days. 00:32:16.180 --> 00:32:17.556 And I've got chilblains! 00:32:17.580 --> 00:32:20.676 I'm sorry, John, I really can't talk to you right now. 00:32:20.700 --> 00:32:23.836 Well, call me tomorrow, then. At this number. 00:32:23.860 --> 00:32:25.476 'Seven o'clock.' 00:32:25.500 --> 00:32:27.916 No, I'm sorry, I can't. 'Please, Anne.' 00:32:27.940 --> 00:32:30.556 Please, I really need you. 00:32:30.580 --> 00:32:32.340 I'm so lonely. 00:32:33.580 --> 00:32:36.820 'And I'm sorry about the things I said. I didn't mean them.' 00:32:37.940 --> 00:32:40.716 I'm just scared, and I want you to know... 00:32:58.821 --> 00:33:00.381 I'll give you a call. Yeah. 00:33:01.581 --> 00:33:04.317 'I don't know. 'No, no, no, no, no. 00:33:04.341 --> 00:33:07.877 'No, you have to guess, that's the game.' 00:33:07.901 --> 00:33:10.317 'I'm not in the mood for games, John, just tell me, 00:33:10.341 --> 00:33:13.117 'where have you decided to live when it's all calmed down?' 00:33:13.141 --> 00:33:14.581 'Number four.' 00:33:15.781 --> 00:33:17.278 What? 00:33:17.302 --> 00:33:18.998 Think about it. 00:33:19.022 --> 00:33:22.398 Where's the last place anyone would ever think of looking? 00:33:22.422 --> 00:33:24.622 Next bloody door! 00:33:25.702 --> 00:33:27.278 'It's genius, Anne. 00:33:27.302 --> 00:33:29.678 'We'll do up one of the bedsits.' 00:33:29.702 --> 00:33:31.878 We've got all the interconnecting doors. 00:33:31.902 --> 00:33:33.462 'It's perfect! 00:33:34.502 --> 00:33:35.582 'Annie? 00:33:36.742 --> 00:33:37.958 'Anne?' 00:33:42.342 --> 00:33:43.462 'Anne? 00:33:45.382 --> 00:33:46.502 'Anne?' 00:34:15.303 --> 00:34:17.719 'In the end, I came to my senses 00:34:17.743 --> 00:34:21.959 'and realised I couldn't let the boys lose both of us. 00:34:21.983 --> 00:34:24.640 'Over the next few weeks, I felt I had no choice 00:34:24.664 --> 00:34:27.600 'but to speak to John every couple of days.' 00:34:27.624 --> 00:34:31.000 'If I never eat another Mars bar, it'll be a day too soon. 00:34:31.024 --> 00:34:33.640 'And meat pies. Oh, Anne, the indigestion!' 00:34:33.664 --> 00:34:36.680 'And every, single time, I begged him to turn himself in. 00:34:36.704 --> 00:34:39.464 'If not for me, for his boys. 00:34:50.344 --> 00:34:51.800 'But 00:34:51.824 --> 00:34:54.400 'he never wavered, not for a second. 00:34:54.424 --> 00:34:58.681 'He had total belief that he was doing the right thing. 00:34:58.705 --> 00:35:02.545 'And, of course, I should have just turned him in myself, but 00:35:04.385 --> 00:35:07.081 'maybe I still hoped I could bring the balloon 00:35:07.105 --> 00:35:10.505 back down to Earth somehow without anyone getting too badly hurt. 00:35:12.625 --> 00:35:14.561 'And then, finally, 00:35:14.585 --> 00:35:18.425 'the boys had to go back to their jobs and real lives.' 00:35:47.906 --> 00:35:49.322 'Anne?' 00:35:50.906 --> 00:35:52.746 Hello, John. 00:36:36.308 --> 00:36:38.044 Gotcha! Oh, my God! 00:36:39.708 --> 00:36:41.284 You stupid idiot! 00:36:41.308 --> 00:36:43.044 Well, it's nice to see you, too. 00:36:43.068 --> 00:36:44.724 Oh, my God, John, when did you last wash? 00:36:44.748 --> 00:36:47.044 Open your window, that's disgusting. Oh, come on. 00:36:47.148 --> 00:36:48.708 Sorry. 00:36:56.448 --> 00:36:59.368 It's still not too late, you know, to own up. 00:37:00.448 --> 00:37:02.744 The worst is over now, pet. 00:37:02.768 --> 00:37:04.425 I promise you. 00:37:04.449 --> 00:37:07.409 It'll be so much easier from here on in. 00:37:10.249 --> 00:37:13.065 Or you could just tell the boys. 00:37:13.089 --> 00:37:15.425 Because they've been so upset, John. 00:37:15.449 --> 00:37:17.385 Absolutely devastated. 00:37:17.409 --> 00:37:19.969 I promise you, if you'd seen what I've seen... 00:37:21.409 --> 00:37:24.505 Well, we could tell them, but 00:37:24.529 --> 00:37:28.825 if it ever goes tits up, they'd be implicated, then, wouldn't they? 00:37:28.849 --> 00:37:31.169 I mean, they could end up in prison. 00:37:32.369 --> 00:37:34.145 And do we really want that, Anne? 00:37:34.169 --> 00:37:35.489 Do you? 00:38:22.571 --> 00:38:24.051 There. 00:38:25.331 --> 00:38:26.667 What are these? 00:38:26.691 --> 00:38:29.627 Front door for number four and then room number eight. 00:38:29.651 --> 00:38:31.467 I've put fresh sheets on the bed. 00:38:31.491 --> 00:38:33.187 There's money in the meter for hot water 00:38:33.211 --> 00:38:35.147 and a microwave ready-meal next to the sink. 00:38:35.171 --> 00:38:38.907 Anne, love, hang on. What are you talking about? 00:38:38.931 --> 00:38:41.587 I'm staying with you tonight, aren't I? 00:38:41.611 --> 00:38:43.788 It's been a long three weeks, love. 00:38:43.812 --> 00:38:45.772 For both of us. 00:38:46.892 --> 00:38:49.708 But we need to stick to the plan, John. 00:38:49.732 --> 00:38:52.772 The one your "certain kind of brain" came up with. 00:38:54.092 --> 00:38:57.492 If I think it's safe, I might let you in for breakfast at nine. 00:39:38.653 --> 00:39:39.813 Anne... 00:39:54.014 --> 00:39:57.254 Can you open the door, please? 00:39:58.334 --> 00:39:59.670 Anne... 00:39:59.694 --> 00:40:01.934 I'm so lonely. 00:41:38.977 --> 00:41:41.193 It was that posh one. 00:41:41.217 --> 00:41:43.233 What's his face. 00:41:43.257 --> 00:41:44.753 Thingy Fox. 00:41:44.777 --> 00:41:46.913 We saw it at The Majestic. I don't remember it. 00:41:46.937 --> 00:41:50.953 Yeah, you do. Anyway, he gets a fake passport easy-peasy. 00:41:50.977 --> 00:41:53.713 So, I'm just going to do the same as him, 00:41:53.737 --> 00:41:56.833 maybe without the assassination of the French President bit. 00:42:04.258 --> 00:42:06.138 4980801. 00:42:07.978 --> 00:42:09.338 Of course. 00:42:11.098 --> 00:42:13.258 No, that's fine. 00:42:14.418 --> 00:42:16.298 OK, see you then. 00:42:17.258 --> 00:42:18.658 Bye, now. 00:42:20.698 --> 00:42:24.498 So, we should probably talk about getting the insurance claim going. 00:42:26.058 --> 00:42:27.874 The police are coming over. 00:42:27.898 --> 00:42:30.794 Say what? In about 20 minutes. 00:42:30.818 --> 00:42:33.475 They said it's routine, but they want to do another search. 00:42:33.499 --> 00:42:34.899 *** 00:43:33.500 --> 00:43:35.740 OK, yeah. 00:43:39.341 --> 00:43:40.781 No problem. 00:43:45.861 --> 00:43:47.917 Did you find anything? 00:43:47.941 --> 00:43:50.237 Not here, no. 00:43:50.261 --> 00:43:52.381 What do you mean, not here? 00:43:57.381 --> 00:43:58.941 I'm so sorry, Anne. 00:44:00.421 --> 00:44:03.077 So... what now? 00:44:03.101 --> 00:44:05.517 Well, I need to speak to my boss. 00:44:05.541 --> 00:44:08.357 But I don't think we're in any doubt now 00:44:08.381 --> 00:44:10.518 about what's happened here. 00:44:10.542 --> 00:44:13.238 That your husband's had some kind of accident at sea 00:44:13.262 --> 00:44:15.582 and has, tragically, lost his life. 00:44:16.902 --> 00:44:18.918 So, to be honest with you, Anne 00:44:18.942 --> 00:44:22.742 this is pretty much case closed for us now. 00:45:14.844 --> 00:45:19.540 'At that moment, he truly thought he'd got away with it.'